razr maxx hd by motorola. now more than ever droid does. >>> back now with the one man entertainment empire, tyler perry. tyler, you weren't called tyler perry as a boy. you were named emmitt perry, jr. you changed your name you said to distance yourself from your father who let's be honest, sounds pretty brutal. used to beat you relentlessly as a young man which must have had an effect on you. >> well, of course it did. but you know, i was able to forgive him in my mid 20s and that changed my life, because what i did was, what i think a lot of people don't realize or understand is that their parents have a story, too. so whatever happened in your life, because of them, you really need to find out the story so that you can understand it. what i found about he and his sister and his brother, they were all found by a white man in rural louisiana in a ditch. he was 2 years old at the time. he was brought to a 14-year-old woman named may to raise. her father was bedridden, very old man, was a slave, and everything that she knew to do to get these children to behave was to beat them. she
